Director presents list of road projects for Swansea streets

SWANSEA — Director of Highway Services and Engineering, Moe Pukulis, presented the Board of Selectmen with his projections for Chapter 90 (state aid) projects throughout Swansea.

Bill Hall

SWANSEA — Director of Highway Services and Engineering, Moe Pukulis, presented the Board of Selectmen with his projections for Chapter 90 (state aid) projects throughout Swansea.

The board had requested that Mr. Pukulis update them on Chapter 90 projects and last Tuesday evening he came to the board meeting with a list that amounted to $989,000 in anticipated projects.

Mr. Pukulis also had project encumbrances amounting to $969,100 that would include the $750,000 for the highway building.

Other encumbrances were for the Wood Street roadway engineering at $50,000 and Wood Street Bridge construction at $132,240, Hortonville Road drainage improvements at $50,000, Pearse Road engineering, $35,000, preliminary engineering at Wilder Street, Sycamore Street, Norwood Street and Lawrence Street at $24,500, and final engineering there at $46,000 and also drainage at Seaview Avenue at $13,000. That left an uncommitted balance of $153,267.

The anticipated projects include $224,000 for the Wilder/Norwood Street drainage that would include $198,000 for construction and $21,000 for inspection.

Another $165,000 would be for the cold plane and paving of Seaview, Touisset, Davis and Todd Streets.

Mr. Pukulis also plans a cold plane and paving for the travel lanes on Oak Street at $155,000. Other town paving would come to $200,000.

Crack sealing of roads would be $40,000 and the chip seal of Hailes Hill Road and Marvel Street would be another $65,000.

There would be $70,000 to $140,000 anticipated for work on the Pearse Road culvert for a total of $989,000 in planned projects.

Mr. Pukulis noted that he had $1,000,853 available in Chapter 90 funds and anticipated receipts when combining the uncommitted balance of $153,267 with the anticipated receipts of $847,586 based on the Massachusetts Department of Transportation projection for the funding.